Aslı Bâli is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and Professor at Yale Law School. Previously, she taught law at the UCLA School of Law, where she served as the founding Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights and the Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Bâli’s research focuses on two broad areas: public international law—including human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on the Middle East. Her scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of International Law Unbound, Cornell International Law Journal, International Journal of Constitutional Law, University of Chicago Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Yale Journal of International Law, and Virginia Journal of International Law, among others. She is the editor of Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy (2017). She has also written essays and op-eds for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Dissent, Slate, and Jadaliyya. She currently serves as co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Middle East Division of Human Rights Watch and as chair of the Task Force on Civil and Human Rights for the Middle East Studies Association. Bâli is a graduate of Williams College, the University of Cambridge where she was a Herchel Smith Scholar, Yale Law School and Princeton University, where she earned her PhD in Politics.
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Recent Work
Books
Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
This volume, the first of its kind in the English language, examines the law and politics of federalism and decentralization …
Latest Work Published Elsewhere
Events
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy, 75 Years After the UDHR
December 10 will mark 75 years since the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human …
Biden’s Middle East Trip: Bad Deal or Shrewd Diplomacy?
This week, President Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel for a trip that’s expected to further align his …
The Human Rights Impact of Broad-Based Economic Sanctions — Time to Rethink our Approach?
QI hosts a discussion on the impact of America’s overuse of broad-based economic sanctions on human rights